Tableau Tuesday: A Look Back at the TC14 Keynote
Now that I’ve recovered and am fully awake from my overdose on data, I thought I’d share some follow-up thoughts on TC14. I primarily want to talk about some of the exciting new things Tableau announced as features coming down from R&D. I’m also announcing a new regular blog series called Tableau Tuesdays, with this […]
InterWorks Named to 2014 CRN Fast Growth 150 List
Stillwater, Okla. – CRN released their annual Fast Growth 150 list today, with InterWorks landing at No. 76. The list recognizes solution providers that have been the fastest growing over a two-year period based on gross revenue from 2011 to 2013. “These organizations are some of the most successful solution providers in business today, and […]
What is #datavision?
Here at InterWorks Marketing, we work hard to prepare for the largest Tableau community event of the year. If you’ve seen us at the Tableau Customer Conference in the past, you know that we don’t treat this like just another conference. We don’t drag out our basic pop-up business backdrop, throw on some Dockers and […]
InterWorks’ Dan Murray Named ‘Tableau Zen Master’
Tableau unveiled their newest Tableau Zen Masters today. Among those honored was InterWorks’ Director of BI Services and “Tableau Your Data!” author, Dan Murray. Murray joins an elite group of data visualization experts, with Zen Master being the highest distinction Tableau can give to those who have made an impact on the Tableau community. Above: Murray speaking to the SFBA […]
Passing Database Parameters In Tableau
In my first InterWorks blog post, I’ve decided to write about something that I commonly used in other BI platforms. The idea of passing parameters in Microsoft and IBM products is vastly used in reporting. A user can define their parameter before running the report. Examples of such parameters are Start Date, End Date, Region, […]
Creating a Windows 7 Thin PC Unattended Installation
As the IT industry continues to be ever-changing, and server virtualization attains an even stronger foothold in your typical environment, desktop virtualization is not far behind. Once reserved for larger scaled environments, it’s now not uncommon to find a small business with only five users running a virtualized desktop environment. You can read and learn […]
4 Things I Wish I Knew Sooner as a BI Consultant
Today, I noticed an interesting series of blog posts float up in the SQL community. Mike Walsh started things off with his post: “4 Attitudes I wish I had earlier as a DBA” This was followed closely with posts by Kathi Kellenberger and Brent Ozar. I like the theme, so I thought I’d just jump in there with some thoughts […]
Tableau Online vs. Tableau Server: 5 Things to Consider
Last year, in July, Tableau Software introduced Tableau Online, their cloud-based product. Over 1000 companies adopted Tableau Online in the first nine months in market, making it Tableau’s fastest-growing product. Tableau has dominated the BI market with 80% growth in just the last year. Transitioning Big Data into cloud computing seems to be the wave of the […]
Deploying Windows Thin PC with Windows Deployment Server
So, you finally decided to virtualize your desktops. Plus, you want to reuse your old desktops as Thin clients. You’re not alone. This kind of thing happens all the time, and there are options for you. My favorite so far is the use of Windows Thin PC. It connects to your domain, it’s easy to […]
How to Deploy OVA / OVF Template Using VMware vSphere Web Client
With the growth of virtualization, several vendors are now creating easy-to -deploy virtual appliances utilizing the open virtualization format template (OVF template), which are distributed as an OVA package. In the past, these templates could easily be deployed utilizing the VMware vSphere Desktop Client. With the release of ESXi 5.5, VMware has been making a […]